'Danny's death has changed rugby league for the better': Lizzie Jones is using her husband's tragic fate to improve his sport's safety

“How was my vibrato?” Danny Jones would ask his wife Lizzie, wearing a smile as wide as Yorkshire. She is a classically-trained singer and he, with his usual vast energy for life, became a huge enthusiast, always in the audience for her shows – at Halifax’s Victoria Theatre, the West Yorkshire Playhouse and beyond. “He just wanted me to sing everywhere we went,” she relates. “Everywhere! Really inappropriate places.” Elvis Presley’s ‘Suspicious Minds’ was his favourite number. “He liked to sing as well. He thought he was  a lot better than he was, bless! But he did like to sing...!”